openvswitch: Immediately exit on error in ovs_vport_cmd_set().
authorJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Mon, 13 May 2013 15:15:26 +0000 (08:15 -0700)
committerJesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
Fri, 14 Jun 2013 22:09:09 +0000 (15:09 -0700)
It is an error to try to change the type of a vport using the set
command. However, while we check that this is an error, we still
proceed to allocate memory which then gets freed immediately.
This stops processing after noticing the error, which does not
actually fix a bug but is more correct.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Gross <jesse@nicira.com>
net/openvswitch/datapath.c

index d12d6b8..748aa97 100644 (file)
@@ -1812,10 +1812,11 @@ static int ovs_vport_cmd_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
        if (IS_ERR(vport))
                goto exit_unlock;
 
-       err = 0;
        if (a[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_TYPE] &&
-           nla_get_u32(a[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_TYPE]) != vport->ops->type)
+           nla_get_u32(a[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_TYPE]) != vport->ops->type) {
                err = -EINVAL;
+               goto exit_unlock;
+       }
 
        reply = nlmsg_new(NLMSG_DEFAULT_SIZE, GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!reply) {
@@ -1823,10 +1824,11 @@ static int ovs_vport_cmd_set(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
                goto exit_unlock;
        }
 
-       if (!err && a[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_OPTIONS])
+       if (a[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_OPTIONS]) {
                err = ovs_vport_set_options(vport, a[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_OPTIONS]);
-       if (err)
-               goto exit_free;
+               if (err)
+                       goto exit_free;
+       }
 
        if (a[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_UPCALL_PID])
                vport->upcall_portid = nla_get_u32(a[OVS_VPORT_ATTR_UPCALL_PID]);